Category: Notes

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

– Peter Thiel

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.

– Henry Kissinger

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Innovation, indeed, creates a resource. There is no such thing as a ‘resource’ until man finds a use for something in nature and then endows it with economic value. Until then, every plant is a weed and every mineral just another rock.

– Peter Drucker

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

– John Maeda

Don’t be so humble – you’re not that great.

– Golda Meir

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable.

– Paul Graham

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

– Peter Drucker

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products.

– Steve Jobs

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

– Richard Feynman